单词 | bank cress |
释义 | > as lemmasbank cress bank cress n. Botany (now rare and chiefly historical) any of various plants of the family Brassicaceae that have leaves with a peppery or sharp taste, esp. winter cress and land cress (genus Barbarea), London rocket, Sisymbrium irio, and hedge mustard, Sisymbrium officinale; also in plural with singular agreement. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > hedge-mustard bank cress1562 wild rocket1578 hedge-mustard1671 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. Diiij Gerardus Delwike rekeneth that ye herb yt is called in Duche winter cresses, or whiche we may call in Englishe bank cresses, because they grow alwayes about the bankes of ryuers, to be the right Irio. 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i. in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Qq2v Bank-cresses, which some call Irio, others Tortela, do so much resemble Rocket both in gust and form. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 584 Erysimum officinale..Hedge Mustard, or Wormseed. Bank Cresses. Scrambling Rocket. 1929 R. W. T. Gunther in J. Ray Further Corr. vii. 172 Ericolevis Neapolitana, small bank cresses of Naples, appeared all over the ruins after the Great Fire of London. 2007 G. Allen Herbalist in Kitchen xx. 126 Sisymbrium officinale: Bank cress, crambling rocket, hedge mustard, Jim Hill mustard, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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